LINGUIST List 12.1594

Sun Jun 17 2001

Qs: Wanna-contraction, Parallel Text Corpora:Fr/Eng

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I would be interested in hearing from native speakers of
English whose dialects/idiolects are exceptional in
allowing "wanna-contraction" across a trace or that-t
sequences, as in (1) and (2), regarding whether you are
exceptional with respect to the other phenomenon as well.
(1) Who do you wanna win? ("Who do you want t to win?")
(2) Who do you think that won? ("Who do you think t won?")
Potential responses will thus fall into one of the
following three categories:
(A) Allow (1) (wanna-contraction) but not (2) (that-t)
(B) Allow (2) (that-t) but not (1) (wanna-contraction)
(C) Allow both (1) and (2)
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Brent de Chene
dechenemn.waseda.ac.jp